Description DCOracle2 is a Python binding to Oracle 8. DCOracle2 is a replacement for DCOracle, written primarily in C. DCOracle 1 uses OCI 7 bindings for most Oracle calls, with OCI 8 mixed in for LOB support. Oracle 8i disallows mixing of calls within a statement, and so breaks LOB support. DCO2 uses entirely OCI 8 calls, and thus can use LOBs. New in this Release Beta 2 Fix ZOracleDA attempting to fetch on non-select. Add explicit C Cursor.close() to break cycle allowing cursor to be deallocated. Change fetchmany() and fetchall() to return None if no results remain rather than []. Several connection/cursor and cursor/procedure cycle deferring actions. SPARC byteorder fixes for stored procedures. Also, binary builds are available for Solaris and Linux i386. Contents This release contains both DCOracle2 and a slightly modified ZOracleDA; it will register as ZOracleDA would (to silently upgrade Oracle connections) and thus cannot be run concurrently with ZOracleDA/DCOracle. Installation To replace ZOracleDA, untar into lib/python/Products and make, move ZOracleDA out of lib/python/Products, and rename lib/python/Products/DCO2 to lib/python/Products/ZOracleDA. Usage This release is intended for testing with ZOracleDA feature compatibility (including LOB support) and is also intended for general use. Platforms NT support has been tested, Microsoft Visual Studio project files are included; this has only received testing with Oracle 8.0 and Oracle 8.1 on Linux, Solaris, and Windows NT; a wider variety of platform experience is welcomed. Download The product is available at http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2